Method of producing a permanent wave



June 12, 1928. 1,673,022

A. SEXTON METHOD OF PRODUCING A PERMANENT WAVE Filed July 15, 1926 Patented June 12, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT AOFFICE.

AUGUSTUS H. SEXTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,. ASSIGNOR TO MAGIC JIAIR 'CURLER COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA,-PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION 0 PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF PRODUCING A Application filed July 15, 1926. Serial 122,527.'

, The metlipd which I am about to describe has for principal objects the simplifying ofthe preparation and treatment of'thehair in' producing a permanent wave'and also in producing a wave more uniform in appearance and much smoother.

"'Therefa'renumerous rather difficult operations 'in permanent waving as at present practicedfand I will refer to them only in way f comparison, to show how I overcome these difficulties.

'Thefir'st difficulty is that of securing the hairsothat all short ends will be bound in smoothly and in their proper position and eventhe tips of short ends will be curled or waved;

Another difficulty is that of securing the hair to the waver. The present method of binding is one that requires long practice and even when long practiced, the results are often very unsatisfactory.

Another of the difficulties is that of ap plying the binder or absorbent strip used for covering the hair and carrying the liquid. Unless this binder is, under the present conditions, most carefully applied, the short ends will be turned back or retained straight, with the result that they stand out from the wave, giving the wave an appearance of roughness.

So that my method will be fully understood, I have prepared and do submit herewith, a d rawirg which should be referred to for a complete understanding of the specification which follows.

In the drawing Figs. 1. 2 and 3, show the method of applying and retaining :1 binder.

Fig. 4, is a side elevation of a binder retainer.

Fig. 5, shows the application of the waver to the extreme end of the binder.

Fig. 6, shows the hair and binder as ap plied to the waver.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in all the figures where they appear.

The short lock of hair is shown at 1. At 2 I show a binder or wrapper which is a piece of absorbent material, such as flannelette. 3 indicates a binder clip.

The waver as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, has a barrel portion 4, a semicylindrical retaining member 5 and a locking member 6.

With this brief reference to the devices operation.

The hair after being thoroughly washed and suitably dried, is separated into locks or sections along purely imaginary lines or if preferred a physical section may be effected.

A, single lock,'suc'h' as that shown at 1 is then separatedaway and is laid through the approximate center of the wrapper 'or hinder 2. This wrapper or binder should be of a length sufficient to 'pro'jectbeyond the end of the lock of hair-.1 One'side of the wrapper or binder is thenfoldedover as shown employed, I'will now outline my method of at 7 in Fig. 2 and thereafter the other side 8 as shown'in F ig; 3 -is'folded over the first side 7 of the wrapper-'fa'nd'the clip 3 applied to the wrapper and at the innermost end thereof, that is at the point furthest away from the tip of the hair.

Before this wrapper is applied, it should be well moistened in a suitable liquid and any of the liquids now satisfactorily employed may be used. After the clip 3 is placed as shown in Fig. 3, I place the wrapper or the binder with the hair therein upon a waving device and to avoid tying, I employ a waving device consisting of a cylinder 4 having a clamping member 5 and between the cylinder 4 and the clamping member 5, I engage the extreme end of the binder or wrapper 2. I then roll the wrapper one or two turns around the cylinder 4 and clamping member 5 to firmly engage the wrapper and to curl the extreme end of the hair. The remainder of the wrapper and hair are applied through the medium of the usually employed twisting roll which produces a wave and when the wrapper and hair are applied to the waver to the full extent desired, the clip 3 is removed as no longer necessary and the clamping arm (3 of the waver is secured, by causing the ball 9 thereof to engage in the end 10 of the cylinder 4.

After this operation is completed the hair and wrapper or binder 2 may be again moistened if found desirable and a heater applied over the waver and the hair and wrapper secured thereon.

The advantages of this method of operation are those of overcoming the difficulties now experienced. First, the method is simplified by overcoming the necessity of tying and by simplifying the application of the hinder or wrapper. Second, by binding in all short fends,"as'si 1ring I sh 100th, uniform- 1y shaped wzivel Third, by pieifentinghny portion of the hair coming in directc'onta'ct' with' the "waver, -'-the --hea'-ter or dtl1er'--liea,t transference '-device,' thus assurin a more even treatment of the hair and preventing the overdrying or the scr ehi ng of operations of the hair. Fourth, 'assuringnr'mo're even moistening of the hair, as the dampened wrapper or hinder entirely "surrounds 1 all of the hair and; other advantages which will readily appear to those well \gersed in the art.

lflgulificatirms 1112)) he mnde within the scope of .the appended 'claims,...without dethewrapper to the-hair, rolling twisting the hair and wrapper simultaneously upon a lwaver; seeuringitfhe l'r'zi ir "WifiQfliil upon the 'w'aver'" and later heating the hair and 't'hewvr'apper upon the waver.

'2. ITl'ie-linethodvof" producingv a, permanent \wave which consists-'of'ciselatingn section of hair, placing a. wrapper.=there'aro.und,={causing the wrapper to project beyond the end of the-hair,roHinghnd twisting the wrapper nclosed heir upon a waver, clamping the hair iiponthe-waver and later heating the hair, t mann en the new .3,{Ikelmethqd.Qfiip odpgingjg "er'manfent \"Viiye .whi l l .c Q'riS iSt S f enclosing t e hairfiiij a m' isfteiid 'iibsjojrbent wr pp r jw tl m e'end of the ma p r.prajninite hd theend of the hair; engz\gin g;the end of 't'he'wrgipper ,in .51 pleurping device, frollingj'and twisting the hair upon said device, jelginp'ing 'the rolled 31nd twisted hair and 'Wrepper 'jj p'on said device .Qjvith, the hair ewayffrom said device'and later heating'th hair,' "thewrap- P and ra d-d vi e a and.' r. h. 'lpvn setiforth.

signedatlthe, city, caunt i Philadelphia, e :Re l -yl m? I i.- i

AUGUSTUS H. snxron. 

